Historical information: Sydney M. Lamb is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University (1951) and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1957). His doctoral dissertation was a grammar of the Mono language based on fieldwork conducted around North Fork, California in the summers of 1953 and 1954. He was a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1958-1964 and Yale University from 1968-1977. He left academia to work in the computer industry from 1977-1981, but subsequently joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University, where he has spent the remainder of his academic career.

Scope and content: The Papers document Lamb's research on Indian languages of California and surrounding areas from 1953-1955.One microfilm reel in the collection also includes copies of Victor Golla's notebooks from his fieldwork on Hupa at Hoopa Valley in the summer of 1963; for more details, see details under the Victor Golla Papers on the Hupa Language.

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: Lucy Kinsman and Sydney M. Lamb. Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages, SCL Lamb, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JW8BTD

Description: See musical transcription in Cummins (1978:68). Performers for 24-107 are Leon Manuel, Josie Atwell, and C. Barrias, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 2, side A.

Description: The spoken cue gives "Burk Park Song" as a subtitle, but Burris Park song is more probable. Compare transcription of the Burris Park Song notated in Cummins (1978:69). Performers for 24-122 are Leon Manuel and Josie Atwell, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 5, side A.

Description: Performers for 24-122 are Leon Manuel and Josie Atwell, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 5, side A.

Description: Performers for 24-140 are Jim Brunell, Clarense Atwell, Josie Atwell, Belle Nuñoz, and Bessie Brunell, but the museum does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 5, side B.

Description: Miscellaneous notes related to a variety of California Indian languages, including: a handout by Bill Elmendorf entitled, “Yukian Pronouns (AAA, 11/21/1969)”; newspaper articles from the 1960’s concerning Indian affairs in California; a manuscript entitled “Notes on Indian Languages of California” by William Bright (8 pages); a map entitled “Native tribes, groups, dialects, and families of California in 1770”; printed notes entitled “schemata of California Indian Tribes”, accompanied by tables depicting properties of particular words; miscellaneous vocabulary from a wide range of languages.

Preferred citation: William Bright, William Elmendorf, and William H. Jacobsen. California Indian Languages, 2014-21.002.059, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23030

Description: Performers for 24-122 are Leon Manuel and Josie Atwell, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 5, side A.

Description: Performers for 24-116 are Josie Atwell and Leon Manuel, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 4, side A.

Description: Performers for 24-115 are Josie Atwell and Leon Manuel, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 3, side B.

Description: Performers for 24-141 are Leon Manuel and Josie Atwell, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Valley region, tape 6, side A.